Application Information

This meeting is currently oversubscribed (full). You may still submit an application. However, it will only be considered by the conference chair if more seats become available due to cancellations.

Conference Description

The 2019 Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Pharmacology will highlight the latest advances in understanding G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and how they mediate regulation of physiological processes. GPCRs are well established effective therapeutic targets and presentations will focus on how we can further improve therapeutic development across diverse disease states, including cancer, metabolic disorders, cardiovascular disease, and pain.

The program will focus on:

How ligands and modulators interact with receptors

How receptors respond to these interactions

How context, both spatial and temporal, effects the signaling output; and importantly

How we can harness these events to treat disease

Related Meeting

This GRC will be held in conjunction with the "Molecular Pharmacology (GRS)" Gordon Research Seminar (GRS). Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRS in addition to an application for the GRC. Refer to the associated GRS program page for more information.

How Form and Function Are Tightly Linked in GPCRsHow structures continue to provide mechanistic insight; high resolution structure determination by x-ray diffraction and cryoEM; how structures finally help drug design; GPCRs as moving pictures: more than telling a thousand words.

Keynote Session: Innovative Drug Screening and Design ApproachesComputational and novel methodologies and good old fashioned medicinal chemistry - repurposing GPCR drugs for disease: new life as anti-cancer therapeutics.

Poster Information

Diversity Funding

Financial assistance is available for qualified applicants through the GRC Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellowship Program. This program provides a grant to underrepresented minority graduate students, postdocs, faculty and scientists to help fund their attendance at their first GRC meeting. Learn more.